Once back in the open air, the globe exploded, destroying a chimney. The Tailor of Paris and his visitor, summer 1843ĭuring a thunderstorm, a small shining globe entered the tailor’s room via the chimney, explored the floor, then rose and left via a stovepipe (after removing the paper covering it). The atmosphere then became intolerably hot, yet solid lumps of ice fell on deck. The bright body fell into the sea, raising a huge wave. Researchers from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, have proposed that the bright glow of lightning balls is created when radiation becomes trapped inside a plasma bubble. A short-exposure photograph taken during the extinction phase gives the picture of a freely floating plasmoid, a few meters in size, irregular in shape with a rather sharp boundary. Is This Video of a ‘Globular Bolt’ Real Ball Lightning: Nature’s Strangest Phenomenon FAQ Ball lightning is finally explained by scientists. ‘Rare Electrical Phenomenon at Sea’, March 19, 1887ĭuring a violent storm in the North Atlantic Ocean, a bright and dark object were seen above the barque J.P.A. Abstract A lightning stroke on a power line tower has been observed at a distance of 180 m. Two persons were killed and others injured. Pursuit of a lightning ball, Milan, June 1841Ī reddish-yellow fireball, chased by a group of men and boys, drifted down a street during a thunderstorm.ĭuring a thunderstorm on the Worcestershire Beacon, July 3, 1826, a huge ball of ‘electric fire’ rolled into a stone shelter and burst through the opposite wall. It was visible for at least two minutes.Ī ball lightning visitor, Linguy (Eure-et-Loire), France, 1897Īn explosion in a chimney before the fireball appeared drove bricks into the wall of the couple’s bedroom John’s Wood, London, 26 June 1921Īn incandescent pear-shaped body hovered beneath the clouds of a slow-moving nocturnal thunderstorm. The town was devastated, although only 7 persons were killed.īall lightning over St. At about 9.50 I went outside, and when I had gone about two steps from the door I suddenly saw a luminous ball apparently lying. A shower of rain fell after 9 p.m., but between about 9.25 and 9.40 there was practically no rain, only a few drops falling. that the only physical phenomenon yet produced in a laboratory at all approaching ball lightning is the active nitrogen studied by Lord Rayleigh. For more information on these events, seeīall Lightning and Globular Light-emitting ObjectsĪ ‘body of fire’ from a ‘fiery cloud’ exploded the powder magazine of Athlone Castle, Ireland, 27 October 1697. ON the night of May 14 a thunderstorm took place over Dublin.
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